Board of Directors

Our Board of Directors guides the long-term vision and financial health of Folio Collaborative. The board works closely with our leadership team to keep our organization strong and ready to support independent schools on their professional growth journeys.

This strategic leadership keeps us grounded in our true purpose. Together, we celebrate and support the human work of growth so that every teacher feels seen, heard, and valued.

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Lori Cohen

Lori Cohen has worked in education for three decades, serving as a teacher, instructional coach, school leader, professional development facilitator, and published author. While working in schools, Lori developed a Teaching Fellows program for new teachers, in-house professional development tailored to the needs of the staff, built instructional coaching programs, and served as the Dean of Faculty where she oversaw the overhaul of teacher growth and evaluation. She also led programs for new teachers as they developed their skills as early-career educators.

In 2019, Lori began working as an independent consultant and has worked with clients all over the globe. She has worked with the Eastern Education Resource Collaborative (East Ed) and as the Developer of People and Programs for Bright Morning Consulting. She is a contributing author of The Art of Coaching Workbook (2020); co-author (with Elena Aguilar) of The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development (2022); co-author (with Elizabeth Denevi) of Integrating Educator Well-Being, Growth, and Evaluation: Four Foundations for Leaders (2025). She is currently working on a book on transformative lesson planning for ASCD, due out in September 2026.

Lori lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and adorable dog. When she is not consulting, coaching, leading workshops, or writing, she is on long runs through the gorgeous landscapes of the Pacific Northwest, drinking delicious coffee, or scoping out the latest restaurant.

You can learn more about Lori at her website: www.loricohenconsulting.com

Julie Crabill, Vice Chair

Julie Crabill

Julie is an experienced marketer with over a decade of senior executive experience in helping high-growth companies build positioning, products, organizations, and cultures that scale. She was most recently the CMO of GoNoodle, a kids media and technology company, where she helped parents and educators find new ways to keep kids physically, mentally, and emotionally healthy during COVID-19. Prior to that, Julie spent nearly two decades in agency PR culminating in her founding Inner Circle Labs, a marketing communications company focused on frontier technology, which was sold to Highwire PR in Jan. 2018. Julie is deeply invested in creating go-to-market strategies and stories that help the startups and organizations that are working to change the world.

Ann Howard

Ann Howard is a product and strategy leader who helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into executable plans. As a fractional executive and consultant, she works with founders, CEOs, CTOs, product leaders, and small cross-functional teams on SaaS strategy, customer discovery, go-to-market clarity, roadmap prioritization, agile operating models, and stakeholder alignment.

Ann brings structure without bureaucracy, along with a collaborative, candid, and practical leadership style. She is especially interested in helping mission-driven organizations like Folio strengthen product strategy, grow earned revenue, navigate technology transformation, and support capable teams doing meaningful work.

Josh Jones-Dilworth, Chair

Josh Jones-Dilworth

Josh is an entrepreneur, marketing leader and teacher driven by the transformative experience he had at McDonogh School in Baltimore. In his entrepreneurial work, he founded JDI and leads the firm today as CEO. It is an integrated marketing firm that helps make precedent-setting science and emerging tech companies well known and understood. At JDI he is currently leading a team to create a new community called Penrose. They are convening 150 of the most consequential people in the science world — researchers, inventors, funders, nonprofit and government leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and storytellers. The goal: to be with each other at the edge of our thinking, against a backdrop of wicked interdisciplinary problems.

Along the way he has also co-founded Litmus Health (infrastructure for real-world evidence), The Daily Dot (the internet’s hometown newspaper), Culturati (the leading conference and community of company culture leaders) and New Civic (a project to catalyze American civic and philanthropic engagement). He is a co-owner of the science magazine Nautilus and proudly serves on its Board. His nonprofit and education work is extensive. He is the outgoing Board Chair of DivInc. He was an Advisor to Mayor Steve Adler for all 8 years of his time in office. He teaches part-time in the MBA in Entrepreneurship program at the Acton School of Business. He serves on the McDonogh School Board of Trustees.

Daphne Kis

Daphne has long been an entrepreneur, product lead, and investor in the broad world of edtech – businesses built to support learners in acquiring skills to broaden their thinking and advance their capabilities.

After leading WorldQuant University from an idea to a fully accredited institution, Daphne’s focus is on amplifying WQU’s global presence and fostering strategic alliances, leveraging her background in strategy and board leadership. WQU has cultivated a community that champions the transformative power of free, online education in data sciences and quantitative skills, impacting students across over 140 countries. The shared belief in lifelong learning fuels WQU’s mission to unlock educational opportunities and bridge skills gaps worldwide, an endeavor supported by Daphne’s role in the World Economic Forum’s Future Skills Alliance.

Her commitment to lifelong learning is further expressed as a board member of Young Audiences: Arts for Learning where she serves on the Executive Board, Audit Committee, and as chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. Young Audiences is a national affiliate network with over 4,000 teaching residents serving over 5 million children nationally. Serving on the Grameen Foundation’s Leadership Advisory Council is based in Daphne’s strong belief that empowerment comes from access to knowledge and resources.

Paul Mumma

Paul is an experienced early stage startup executive, lecturer, strategy consultant and lawyer. He served as COO and CEO at Cerego (an adaptive learning tool used by universities and organizations around the world) and COO at Universe (the first website builder designed for iPhones). In these roles Paul has built products used by millions of people, and scaled and led teams of passionate people looking to improve education and work with software.

Today, Paul is a partner at Kaiser Associates (where he advises private equity firms and growth-stage companies) and is the founder and managing attorney at Hapax Law. He is a regular lecturer at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in New York City with his four children and his wife Kirsten (an education policy researcher at Teachers College, Columbia University).

Steve Sanderson

Steve Sanderson has spent nearly two decades building technology for education. At Rhithm, he was Chief Product and Technology Officer of a K-12 student well-being platform – helping schools turn daily student check-ins into early signals their teachers and counselors could act on, right through to the company’s acquisition by Securly. Before that, he was CEO of EdSight, bringing continuous-improvement guidance to K-12 districts as software. EdSight had grown out of Double Line, where he was also CEO – he led the turnaround there, solving public-sector data-interoperability problems for states and school districts. And further back, as CTO and VP of Product Development at Sapling Systems, he built a higher-education learning platform out of a services business, ultimately acquired by Macmillan Publishers.

Over more than thirty years, he has founded companies, run them as CEO, and led product and technology organizations, with four exits to his name. His early work is a case study in Eric Ries’s “The Lean Startup” and Ash Maurya’s “Running Lean.” The throughline has stayed the same: building software companies that deliver great products, ones that solve for more than one bottom line – financial, human, and social, together. Today he partners with leaders building and bringing software products to market, helping the whole company, not just the product team, move the results that matter to users and the business. He works through his practice, Alright. What’s next?, and lives between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Austin, Texas.

Hilary Robinson

Associate Head of School

St. Mary’s Episcopal School

Hilary Robinson

Associate Head of School

St. Mary’s Episcopal School

Hilary Davis Robinson is the Associate Head of School at St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee, where she oversees the academic and daily life of girls from early childhood through grade 12. A passionate educator and experienced administrator, Hilary has spent over three decades championing student success, faculty growth, and mission-aligned leadership in independent schools.

Throughout her career, Hilary has served in a variety of roles- from classroom teacher to division head- building strong faculty teams, leading curricular innovation, and steering accreditation processes. She currently supervises a team of academic leaders, directs strategic initiatives, and cultivates a professional culture grounded in excellence and care.

Hilary holds a B.A. in French and Elementary Education from Millsaps College and an M.A.T. in Reading and Literacy from Marygrove College. She is pursuing her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at the University of Tennessee. A dedicated school leader and community advocate, she has served on multiple accreditation teams through SAIS and helps lead schools through the accreditation process. She is also a volunteer for the Memphis LeBonheur Club and serves on the Catholic Diocese School Advisory Board. In 2023, she was named one of the Memphis Business Journal’s “10 Women Who Lead in Education.”

Hilary is honored to join the Board of the Folio Collaborative and looks forward to advancing its mission of reflective practice and professional growth across schools.

Monica Rodriguez

Head of School

The Montessori School of Raleigh & Carolina Preparatory Academy

Monica Rodriguez

Head of School

The Montessori School of Raleigh & Carolina Preparatory Academy

A native of Los Angeles, Monica has spent 23 years teaching, learning, and leading in independent schools.The beginning of her career was dedicated to teaching Spanish at the early childhood, elementary, and middle school levels at Near North Montessori School, Alain Locke Charter School, and Countryside Day School. She then spent eight years at Morgan Park Academy where she began her tenure there as an Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish teacher, and later moved into the following administrative roles: department chair, assistant upper school principal, director of global studies, director of the academic summer institute, and dean of academics. She later worked as the upper school director at Latin School of Chicago where she oversaw daily operations, curricular scope and sequence, professional development, student wellness, and several other major academic and non-academic initiatives for the upper school.

Monica is formally trained as an elementary teacher for grades 1 to 6 through the Association Montessori International (AMI). She earned her B.A. in Spanish from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College. The 2025-2026 school year will be Monica’s sixth year as head of school at The Montessori School of Raleigh (MSR) and Carolina Preparatory Academy (Carolina Prep), which is a PK-12 independent, Montessori and International Baccalaureate (IB) World School serving 440 students on two campuses in Raleigh and Durham.

Monica believes deeply in community service and as such, serves as a board member for the North Carolina Association of Independent Schools (NCAIS) and West Suburban Montessori School in Oak Park, IL. In addition to volunteerism, Monica is an avid reader, traveler, lover of music, amateur genealogist, and enjoys the outdoors. She is happily married and has two active, hilarious, and smart little girls.